related works
Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str
12 : for two soloists and large orchestra / Alexey, Sioumak
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr ten orch
Berceuse uit: Philomela / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3222 4220 timp hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
low 2222 4231 timp perc str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans